Nicholas Nickleby Author:Charles Dickens From philologist23: — The cover is either laminated or plastic and it is an ex-library book. The number of pages include a bibliography. — From the back cover: "The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens's novels, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY mingles the somber world of OLIVER TWIST with the sunlit spectacle of THE PICKWICK PAPERS. — In a delightful seri... more »es of adventures, Nicholas, the hearty young hero, takes us on a journey through nineteenth-century England accompanied by some of Dickens's best swaggering scoundrels and most unforgettable eccentrics. From the dungeonlike Yorkshire boys' boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers [wacky?] to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummies's extraordinary acting troupe, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is a triumph of the
imagination -- a marvelously energetic work bursting with scenes of brilliant color, luminous humor, and poignant social commentary."« less
Excellent for the book collector. Good, if dated, bibliography and biographical with critical studies included in this 1983 edition. For the Dickensian, this is a very good mid-level research tool.